The German Attorney General (Generalbundesanwalt we like the word for this and we mention it) Harald Range stopped the investigation about the spying on the cell phone of the German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel, as the charges cannot be proven by "valid legal means."
In October of 2013, media reports reported that the US National Security Service (NSA) was attending several telephone sets. One of them was Angela Merkel's device.
The documents leaked by Edward Snowden "contain no evidence of the monitoring and they can stand up in a court of law," Range said, adding that efforts to gather more evidence from the NSA failed (sic).
Η research απέτυχε για το γεγονός ότι τα έγγραφα του Edward Snowden που ήταν η μόνη απόδειξη για τις παραβιάσεις δεν αποτελούν πραγματική απόδειξη για τους Γερμανούς, καθώς η προέλευσή τους δεν μπορεί να αποδειχθεί.
Range tried to get the information it needed directly from the NSA (!), But as expected the US did not help. Without this cooperation, research was stopped.
According to a press release from the White House (in 2013), the NSA "does not and would not monitor Chancellor Merkel's communications."
What else could the White House say in his statement?